yes yes, “blockchain is more than crypto”. You have to understand that nobody cares about the distinction unless they’re trying to distance themselves from crypto, and it’s not my job to help with that

I’ve been reading the protocol docs and there’s a lot of stuff in there that just feels kinda weird until you consider that the authors’ main reference for distributed systems is crypto

My dearest Gertrude,

I fear I shall not make it home. This war has ravaged our supplies and broken our will.

We arrived with weapons, purpose, and a directive. Yet at every turn, we are mocked. Belittled.

I have never experienced an insult so great in a war zone

Send my best to the children

This has always been the plan!
They want a captive market in schools/universities and for those institutions to eventually automate education with their chatbots.
We are TRAINING these LLMs in preparation for our redundancy, and experimenting with the health and futures of children while we do it

1000000% this

I cannot imagine being in that person's head and I wouldn't want to. I think your idea of blocking is wise - gonna do the same.

I am pretty sure this is a loss you can afford

Yeah I'd also argue the pack leads new users to believe they are subscribing to a list on a topic, when in fact they are subscribing to a whole bunch of complete human beings whose actual posts may (very fairly) diverge a fair bit from the title on the list.

It's not privilege discourse if it's just that you think someone's wrong and you're right.

tempted to ask that person if the cop is in the room with us right now

That Person's Thread, Finding New Lows With Every Post

It would be good for all of us if people would stop tormenting the language of oppression and liberation into actually being about their personal, petty grudges. Writing "kill[ing] the cop in your head" in a post where you're policing someone's random, anodyne thought on online discourse is lolz.

I think a lot of people think of the bubble as linear - as though it's just a bunch of individual, overvalued companies. It's closer to the 2008 crisis where you've got entwined interests, all propping up each others' forecasts. That's why the wreckage is so unpredictable.

and an explicit statement that diaspora Jews are not deserving of protection as Jews

yeah agreed, it's a call to violence

Your Bubbe and Zayde are now Hamas

i love this website actually

Here’s the thing about social media moderation: you need to have both a provision and a practice of keeping people off your platform even if they don’t break any of your rules but are simply just a fucking asshole. And of course off-platform behavior is a legitimate reason.

Too tired to post well, but not too tired to post

I am fairly agazed by my surprise

whomst amongst us saw it comingst

Hanging out in the mentions of a professional on a social media network and seemingly expressing resentment & jealousy of their achievements, and obsessing over whether they see you as lesser, is weirdo shit, friend.

I'm not trying to be vague here I'm just trying not to accidentally subtweet one of several people

I'm hopeful that people will look back on right now as a time when everybody was under a lot of pressure and not being their best selves, and hopefully some things that seemed big will seem small

Although the things some people have revealed about themselves can't be unseen.😔